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15 May 2012
Since
23 January 2009 the Embassy of the Russian Federation in London has outsourced
its visa application processing to M/S VFS Services (UK) Ltd who run the Russia
Visa Application Centre... Read more »
14 May 2012
A clause in the Crime and Courts Bill published on 10 May 2012 will
remove the full right of appeal for those applying to enter the UK as a family
visitor. Subject to Parliamentary approval... Read more »
23 April 2012
Following
reports by the National Audit Office that weaknesses in the UK’s student visa
system may have allowed as many as 50,000 people posing as students into the UK
in just one year, the... Read more »
12 April 2012
Presumably it happens almost
every day. Weeks, sometimes months after
it was received by the United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA), an application made
by a student or by anyone seeking further permission... Read more »
10 April 2012
Glaringly absent from the recent
extensive statement of changes to the Immigration Rules called HC 1888 was the
figure for the limit on Tier 2 (General) applications for the year 6 April 2012
to... Read more »
26 March 2012
Refugees are, unsurprisingly,
protected against being removed from the United Kingdom. The part of the 1951 Convention relating to
the status of refugees which provides this protection is Article... Read more »
16 March 2012
The government’s overhaul of all
aspects of the United Kingdom’s immigration regime with the target of reducing
"net migration” continues with a new Statement of Changes in the Immigration
Rules... Read more »
12 March 2012
Does Article 8 of the European
Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) protect Appellants whose cases nearly succeed under the Immigration
Rules? That was the issue to be decided by the Court... Read more »
02 March 2012
In June of 2011 Immigration Minister Damian Green announced
radical plans for the phasing out of the route to settlement (the right to live
in the United Kingdom permanently) in the United Kingdom... Read more »
